karlson@ERNIE.BERKELEY.EDU (Eric Karlson) (07/01/89)
We are having a SERIOUS problem with getting some of our TIs to boot. The problem is coming from two sources. The first is the result of a disk crash on the unit 0 disk of one of our machines. The disk *finally* got fixed and put back on the machine, but of course it is completely data free. s a result, there are no bands on the disk to use for booting it. In the booting process, one possible boot device is the ethernet, but we have never been able to get a TI to boot by picking up things over the ethernet (and of course TI never thought of documenting something as mundane as what options are open when booting a machine, or at least, its not anywhere that I can find). The second problem is some strange disk partition problem on a different TI. The disk label on unit 0 was changed (including the PTBL, FMT and SAVE partitions). No when the machine boots, it can read the disk that was changed and pick up the correct bands from that disk, but the screen then blanks and the machine hangs. In fooling around with the various options that I know about in the boot menu I have discovered that the machine cannot read the disk partition table on the disk THAT WAS NOT CHANGED... This I do not understand. I think the problem is that it is perhaps trying to do something with unit 1 somewhere early in the boot process and cannot read the partition table and therfor hangs. If anyone has ANY ideas on how to get these systems to boot I would appreciate it no end. Thanks. Eric Karlson
acuff@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (Richard Acuff) (07/07/89)
Eric, You message about your disk problems seemed to indicate that you had problems getting your disk fixed. Was the problem with TI? Re. booting over the net. I would like to be able to do this, but alas, I've been told by those that should know that the ENET option is only a stub with nothing behind it. *sigh* I expect that you're right that during the boot process the "changed" (damaged?) label on the other machine is causing the system to choke while looking for PAGE bands, but I can't be sure. I've had damaged disks and labels before, but nothing like that. -- Rich